Inside the Anokhi archive of hand-printed fashion

Preserved in a Jaipur haveli are wooden blocks going back half a century, tiny tools, traditional swatches – and they’re still inspiring modern collections.

In 2005, a new museum dedicated to blockprinting opened in a restored 16th-century pink sandstone haveli just outside Jaipur.

The Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing is a record and repository of five decades of craftsmanship from the region. It contains chisels, swatches, paper patterns and toiles. A section of the museum is also dedicated to the evolution of the clothing brand Anokhi, the space’s key sponsor.

Anokhi the brand was founded by John Singh and Faith Singh in 1970. At